Irreducibly collective existence and bottomless nihilism
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Abstract This paper develops the metaphysical hypothesis that there are irreducibly collective pluralities, pluralities of objects do not have a singular object among them. A way to formulate this using plural quantification will be proposed and coherence existence defended. Furthermore, shown allow for bottomless scenarios involve things standing in relations parthood. create logical space an anti-atomistic form mereological nihilism.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Synthese
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['0039-7857', '1573-0964']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03623-z